The Office of the Associate Director for Data Science at the National Institute of Health (NIH) invites you to attend World-Scale Personalized Learning Through Crowdsourcing and Algorithms on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, 3:30pm (EST) as part of the NIH Frontiers in Data Science Lecture Series and in conjunction with the National Science Foundation. The speaker will be Dr. Po-Shen Loh, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University and founder of expii.com, an education technology startup providing a free personalized learning platform on every smartphone. Po-Shen Loh is a math enthusiast and evangelist. He is also the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team. As an academic, Po-Shen has numerous distinctions, from an International […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Posts Tagged ‘NIH’
NIH Frontiers Lecture: World-Scale Personalized Learning Through Crowdsourcing and Algorithms
May 31st, 2016 / in Announcements, Research News / by Helen WrightNIH National Cancer Institute Opens Online Platform to Submit Ideas About Research for Cancer Moonshot
April 21st, 2016 / in Announcements, Research News / by Helen WrightThe National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health has launched an online platform to enable the research community and the public to submit ideas on the National Cancer Moonshot efforts. The goal of the Moonshot Initiative is to accelerate progress in the fight against cancer by swiftly advancing knowledge from cutting-edge basic research to new prevention and treatment strategies for patients, said NCI Acting Director Douglas Lowy, M.D. The community involvement that the initiative garners will allow us to consider novel, creative ideas that might not otherwise have come to NCI’s attention. Submissions will be considered by the Blue Ribbon Panel (BRP) of scientific experts and […]
NIH Pill Image Recognition Challenge
February 15th, 2016 / in policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), recently published a Federal Register Notice for a national Pill Image Recognition Challenge. NLM seeks YOUR input in developing high-quality algorithms and software that rank known images of prescription pills in the NLM RxIMAGE database by similarity to consumer-quality images of unknown prescription pills. NLM plans to use the submissions in creating a future software system and Application Programming Interface (API) that can be used in identifying an unknown prescription pill from a photo taken of that pill by a smart phone. Parties wishing to participate in the Challenge are provided with a training data set. The submission […]
Transatlantic Data Science Workshop
January 5th, 2016 / in Announcements, NSF, pipeline, policy, Research News / by Helen WrightStanford University, in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Research Councils of the United Kingdom (RCUK) with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), is hosting a Transatlantic Data Science Workshop. This two-day workshop will be held on March 1-2, 2016 at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. The objectives of this workshop are: To facilitate the development of novel computational approaches to health; To guide computer scientists, data scientists, statisticians, computational scientists, and mathematicians in discovering and accessing US and UK health datasets; and To support early stage researchers in establishing interdisciplinary, international collaborations. The first day of the workshop will be devoted to exploring […]
NIH Funds Robotics Projects as Part of National Robotics Initiative
December 14th, 2015 / in Announcements / by Khari DouglasThe National Institute of Health (NIH) has announced that it will fund the development of three co-robots, or robots that work cooperatively with people, as part of its fourth year of participation in the National Robotics Initiative (NRI). In addition to the NIH, the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Department of Defense are supporting the development of co-robots. The three innovative co-robots being supported by NIH are: 1. A four-legged robotic smart-walker designed to help improve the mobility and quality of life of the elderly being developed by Dr. Xiangrong Shen at the University of Alabama. The robot has two […]
New NIH Prize Competition to Advance Open Science
November 10th, 2015 / in Announcements, awards, big science, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) has partnered with London-based Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to launch a global science competition for new products to advance “open science,” a movement to make scientific research data broadly accessible to the public. From the NIH news release: The volume of digital information generated by biomedical research often called “big data” is growing at a rapidly increasing pace. Researchers’ ability to derive knowledge from data is hindered by their ability to find, access and use it. The goal of the Open Science Prize is to support the development and prototyping of services, tools and platforms to overcome these hurdles to ensure data […]